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Youth Participatory Action Research In Reference To Mental Health: A Scoping Review Protocol, Tess Johnson, Marie Barnard, Allison Ford-Wade, Hannah Allen, Ruaa Al Juborri

Faculty and Student Publications

This review seeks to see how Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) has been utilized to explore Mental Health Literacy (MHL) among adolescents, what outcomes have come from utilizing YPAR in interventions with adolescents and what the current gaps in the literature are regarding the utilization of YPAR to examine MHL with adolescents. A PCC framework (participants/population, construct, context) will be applied to the review (Peters et al., 2015).

Ole Miss Honors Nine Distinguished Alumni, Business Leaders, Tina H. Hahn

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The School of Business Administration at the University of Mississippi honored business giants and servant leaders Thursday (Oct. 24) by inducting them into the school's inaugural Hall of Fame.

Brown Bag Lunch & Learn: Textbook Affordability, Brian Young, Mahek Sota

Open Access Week

Bring your lunch and join Brian, Elizabeth, and Mahek as they talk about how the UM Libraries can support faculty and instructors in providing affordable textbooks for their courses.

News You Can Use: How To Handle An Opioid Overdose, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – No one wants to witness an opioid overdose, but everyone should know what to do if they encounter a person suffering from an overdose, a University of Mississippi police officer advises.

Business School To Host 23rd Annual Banking And Finance Symposium, Stella Connell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi School of Business Administration is preparing for its 23rd annual Banking and Finance Symposium, set for Nov. 8 at the Oxford Conference Center. The daylong event includes discussions on financial technology advances and trends in mergers and acquisitions.

October 24, 2024, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Transcribing Audio & Video With Whisper, Abbie Norris-Davidson, Shelby Watson

Open Access Week

Interested in content creation, research with audio or video, or data processing? Want to learn more about a free tool for transcribing audiovisual content? This Open Access Week session will focus on Whisper, a widely used open source tool for transcribing audiovisual content. We'll explore its features, practical applications, and demonstrate how to use the tool for automating transcription tasks.
Participants are welcome to listen and watch or follow along with the demonstration on their own devices. If you'd like to follow along with the session demonstration, please make sure you have installed Whisper and its dependencies (particularly ffmpeg) before …

Study Of Chick Peeps Could Improve Understanding Of Animal Emotions, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Understanding animal emotions has been a long-running question at the forefront of welfare studies, but a University of Mississippi professor's work may hold the key to decoding the chatter.

Chords Of Longest Cycles Passing Through A Specified Small Set, Shunzhe Zhang

Combinatorics Seminar

Along-standing conjecture of Thomassen says that every longest cycle of a 3-connected graph has a chord. Thomassen (2018) proved that if G is 2-connected and cubic, then any longest cycle must have a chord. He also showed that if G is a 3-connected graph with minimum degree at least 4, then some of the longest cycles in G must have a chord. Zhang (1987) proved that if G is a 3-connected simple planar graph which is 3-regular or has minimum degree at least 4, then every longest cycle of G must have a chord. Recently, Li and Liu showed that …

Greenfield Farm Support Tops $4 Million, Tina H. Hahn

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Support for the University of Mississippi Greenfield Farm Writers Residency – the state's first significant infrastructure investment in contemporary writers – has topped $4 million, thanks to two new private gifts and the Mississippi Legislature.

Automating The Collection Of Open Access Publications To Egrove, Abbie Norris-Davidson, Mahek Sota

Open Access Week

Join us for a 1-hour presentation featuring the University of Mississippi's Digital Initiatives Librarian and Applications Analyst as they delve into the process of automating the collection of open access (OA) faculty publications. This session will focus on the integration of platforms like Scopus and PubMed to identify and import OA publications into the institutional repository, eGrove.
The Digital Initiatives Librarian will demonstrate how to leverage eGrove's built-in Scopus API to efficiently add these publications. Meanwhile, the Applications Analyst will present the Python-based scraping code she developed to automate the collection process from external databases.
Additionally, the presenters will discuss …

How Scary Are The Costs Of Academic Publishing?, Harley Rogers, Brian Young, Elizabeth Batte

Open Access Week

Many open access (OA) journals require authors to pay an article processing charge (APC) which can range from hundreds to thousands of dollars. The publisher's intent behind APCs is to recoup publishing costs. This shifts the financial burden on authors.

Cleaning Up China: The Role Of Pollution Of Liability Insurance, Alecia Cassidy

Speaker Series

Dr. Alecia Cassidy joins us to discuss "Cleaning up China: The Role of Pollution Liability Insurance" on October 21st, 2024 in Croft's Joseph C. Bancroft Conference room at 6:00 pm. Dr. Cassidy is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies at the University of Alabama, with a Ph.D. in economics rom the University of Michigan. Her research spans environmental and energy economics, urban economics, and real estate economics.

Engineering Alumni Kick Off School's Countdown To 125th Anniversary, Marvis Herring

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The male-dominated classes, dress code requirements and dorm curfews could not derail Barbara Beckmann from becoming the first female graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Engineering in 1961.

10.21.2024 Orsp Connect, Liz Williamson

ORED Newsletter

Jerry Martin

NIH Grants Process Primer Training

Nature Masterclasses Writing a Review Paper Course

October 21, 2024, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Gift Supports The Future Of Law, Bill Dabney

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A deep passion for the legal profession led Celie and Eddy Edwards to establish a scholarship for students working toward a Juris Doctor at the University of Mississippi School of Law.

University Opens New Space For Graphene Research, Innovation Hub, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi christened a new space for the Center for Graphene Research and Innovation on Friday (Oct. 18).

Two Um Staff Make Top 20 Under 40 Young Professionals List, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Two University of Mississippi employees were among 20 young professionals recognized for their leadership and service in the local community.

Empowering Community, Engagement & Service, Albert Nylander, Laura Martin, Dayton Ashby

Publications of the Grisham-McLean Institute

"This is a publication of the Grisham-McLean Institute for Public Service and Community Engagement."

North Mississippi Vista Project: National Service In Action, 2024, University Of Mississippi. Grisham-Mclean Institute For Public Service And Community Engagement, Dayton Ashby

Publications of the Grisham-McLean Institute

No abstract provided.

News You Can Use: Avoiding Credit Card Pitfalls, Marvis Herring

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – America's collective unpaid credit card balance sits above $1.14 trillion, but that doesn't mean young people – including college students – should be afraid of having one in their wallets, according to Ken Cyree, dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of Mississippi.

October 17, 2024, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Rheumatoid Arthritis Increases Health Care Costs, Harms Mental Health, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A University of Mississippi-led comprehensive study of a disorder that affects 4.27 million Americans nationwide is revealing just how significant its burdens are on patients' financial well-being and quality of life.

Phase Transitions In Isoperimetric Problems, Chris Wells

Combinatorics Seminar

Among all bodies of a fixed volume, the ball has the smallest surface area. Among all ideals in R[x1,..., xn] generated by a fixed number of monomials of degree d, the one with the fewest monomials of degree d + 1 is the lex-ideal. These are two very different sounding facts, but are in fact both examples of isoperimetric problems, which ask: among all objects of a particular size, which has the smallest boundary? In this talk, we’ll focus on the discrete setting, where isoperimetric problems take the form: given a graph G, among all subsets of the vertices of …

Ole Miss Partners With Texas A&M, Virginia Tech For Novel Ai Study, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Colleges and universities across the globe are grappling with artificial intelligence without a consensus on how best to approach one of the fastest-growing technologies of the era.

Um Team To Combat Opioid Overdose In North Mississippi, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The number of deaths from the opioid crisis decreased nationwide in 2023, but Mississippi's opioid-related fatalities are still on the rise, a recent report concludes.

William Boyle Coming To Circle And Square, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Writers and aspiring writers are invited to join renowned novelist William Boyle for a discussion about the craft on Wednesday (Oct. 16) at Circle and Square, 100 Depot St.

10.14.2024 Orsp Connect, Liz Williamson

ORED Newsletter

IBC Changes and Updates

ARPA-H Planning New Funding Opportunity

Equipment Purchasing Training Available

Ole Miss Becomes Member Of Age-Friendly University Network, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi has joined a worldwide collaboration of colleges and universities that support healthy and active aging across the lifespan.